PAUL RUDD: ALSO Y

The Ten had, at one point, the biggest gap between the metacritic rating and the user rating that I've ever seen, it was literally like 40% higher for the latter. I took that to mean "for The State fanboys only," so I'm gonna try and avoid it.

everything with liev schreiber was hilarious, and like everyone i was with laughed ridiculously loud at the whole dianne wiest thing, and the winona ryder and the marionette thing was suitably freaky. but the fucking 3 hours of musical numbers at the end of the film -- DNW

"Sometimes being completely unfunny is part of the program. Thus, WHAS is stocked with stereotypes (nerdy Jewish kids, teenybopper make-out sluts, dorky nice guys), but the gags run from cheap shots to interminable laughing scenes to mise-en-scène fuckups (loved Joe Lo Truglio's obvious stuntman) to affected earnestness to full-frontal self-mockery. Inconsistency is the secret m.o., and the film exists in a humid meta-movie ether all its own... It will be loathed, but it might be ahead of its time."

I like the Voice review too! I'd just put an exclamation point at the end of "all its own."

xpost see a bad critic would just reference "hello mudda" while complaining about the movie being unfunny. a GREAT critic would show up the unfunny movie by writing the entire review as a song parody, revealing that, hey, they know funny.